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Team members
Zbyszek Boratyński (CV) principal investigator
Field: evolutionary ecology, eco-physiology
Interests: Responses to varying selective pressures
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Profiles: WoS, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, ORCID, CIÊNCIAVITAE
If you are motivated and want to pursue interesting research please contact us at: boratyns@gmail.com (or any email below)
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BIOPOLIS, CIBIO/InBio, Research Center in Biodiversity & Genetic Resources, University of Porto, Campus de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, nº 7, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal
Alexandra M. Tyers, independent researcher
Field: evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology
Interests: How do different mechanisms of population divergence contribute to speciation?
Ilaria Melcore, post-doctoral researcher
(University of Turin, Italy)
Field: animal ecology, physiological and behavioural adaptations in mountains
Interests: How interactions within animal communities response to environmental change?
Oussama Bouarakia, post-doctoral researcher
(University of Venda, South Africa)
Field: evolutionary biology, ecology, biodiversity conservation
Interests: How animal species adapt to changing environments?
Profiles: ResearchGate, Google Scholar, ORCID, CIÊNCIAVITAE
Bárbara Noronha Bastos, doctoral student
(BIOPOLIS, University of Porto)
Field: molecular cell biology, evolutionary processes, genetics and physiological molecular networks
Interests: How molecular mechanisms of physiological processes evolve?
Rebecca Sinead Saager, doctoral student
(Free University of Berlin, Germany)
Field: transcriptomics, genomics, co-expression networks and neurogenetics
Interests: What are the molecular determinants of brain size and cognitive performance in rodents exposed to radioactive contamination?
Lekshmi B Sreelatha, doctoral student
(BIOPOLIS, University of Porto)
Field: behavioral ecology, molecular biology
Interests: How morphological diversity is maintained within polymorphic populations?
Tiago Afonso Macedo, doctoral student
(BIOPOLIS, University of Porto)
Field: camouflage, satellite and digital image analyses
Interests: What is the optimal spatial scale of adaptations?
Recent members
Nelish Pradhan
assistant professor at Southeast Missouri State University, USA
Field: biogeography, population genomics, phylogeography, molecular systematics, high altitude (Himalayan) rodents
Interests: How taxa are related and where are meaningful boundaries among them?
Clara Gyhrs, master student
Field: population and conservation genetics, field ecology
Interests: How evolutionary processes, that drive speciation and differentiation, could inform conservation policy?
Xabier Salgado-Irazabal, MSc 2020
field manager, Trinidad, W.I., Auburn University, USA
​Field: behavioral ecology, animal personality, camouflage
Interests: How animal personalities modulate adaptations?
Pedro Alonso-Alonso, MSc 2020
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PhD student at University of Wurzburg, Germany
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Field: animal ecology, biodiversity, population genomics
Interests: How biogeographic and geological processes shape biodiversity?